Engineering Manager, Android
Location: US, TX, Austin
Department: Android
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
We're an emerging technology agency, and we build breakthrough products through user-centered design. We're building a team of the brightest minds in creative, engineering, and business because we love working with smart people. 

Job description:
As Engineering Manager for Mutual Mobile’s Android department, you will be a key player in the definition and execution of company goals. You will define strategies to grow and strengthen the Android team, and be a leader in the development of software projects on the Android platform. More specifically, you will...Manage up to 10 -15 direct reports.Provide technical and project oversight to 1-2 small or 1 medium sized project. Assist the PM on day to day project execution and team dynamics.Mentor team members for technical and business level topics via 1:1 meetings based on project and team member feedback.Be an evangelist for Android both within and outside Mutual Mobile.Demonstrate thought leadership by promoting new techniques, identifying growth areas for the department, promoting Mutual Mobile and its Android capabilities in the industry by presenting technical topics in meetups and writing blog posts.Participate in pursuit activities including discussing Android capabilities at MM, understanding project scope, leading estimation and breakdown of work.Responsible for staffing projects in collaboration with project leadership.

Requirements:
You’ll excel in this position if you have...8+ years experience leading and/or managing application development teams, with at least 3 of those years spent managing mobile application delivery teams. (Exposure to iOS or other mobile platforms is a plus.) A proven track record of successfully leading projects through an entire software release life cycle in an Agile/Scrum environment.  Prior experience as a developer will be an asset.An understanding of software development methodologies such as SOLID, TDD (including automated unit, integration, and system testing), CI, release management, software maintenance, and source code management.Familiarity with tools such as Eclipse, the Android SDK and Android Tools, Junit, Jira, SVN, Git and Java is a plus.Experience dealing with cross-functional teams across several countries, as you’ll work with everyone--clients, PMs, UX/UI designers, Server developers, and mobile engineers--to coordinate the successful completion of projects.Highly developed people management skills that are based on the philosophies of kindness, understanding, facts, and excellence.A background in services or an agency environment is preferred but not required.

Benefits:
Why work for Mutual Mobile? We craft beautiful mobile interfaces and solve complex software challenges. Clients such as Google, #URL_699b900bfe4fc170a8a4e9c99ccfe3243461eb6625234e567ad654ad842c2243#, Citi, and Xerox come to us for our deep experience in mobile — from establishing a mobile strategy that provides impactful business value, to building those solutions from the ground up. We bring together the brightest minds in interactive &amp; visual design, engineering, and business to deliver solutions that actually matter.You’ll love working here because this isn’t a company of silos. Team members are empowered and encouraged to pursue cool ideas, think for themselves, and make mistakes. We won’t subject you to our current systems and processes - we would love it if instead you would help to improve them. We know you’re smart, and that you love learning new technologies--so you’ll be able to work on a variety of Android projects with many different types of people.